Petter Solberg, driving for the PSRX Volkswagen Sweden team, claimed top spot after the first two qualifying races in round five of the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy at Lydden Hill today, the affable Norwegian claiming a psychological advantage over his rivals by also breaking the Lydden Hill lap record.

Albatec headed to Belgium for a rare outing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy this weekend, with former WRC driver François Duval at the wheel of one of the team’s Peugeot 208 RX Supercars.

The Cooper Tires World RX of Hockenheim will take place at the Hockenheimring in west Germany this weekend (5-7 May) as World RX joins the highly-acclaimed German Touring Car Masters [DTM] for the third year in a row.

Former World Rally Championship driver François Duval will drive an Albatec Racing Peugeot 208 RX Supercar in Coyote World RX of Belgium, round four of the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy, at Mettet on 12-14 May.

The championship lead and the fastest car, this weekend’s opening round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship demonstrated great pace and incredible potential from the PSRX Volkswagen World RX Team Sweden.

The FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy has retained TOTAL – the leading multinational energy company - as the World Championship’s official lubricant partner. Using the TOTAL Quartz brand, the collaboration is a two-year deal.

The shape’s familiar. The silhouette’s become an icon of success. Of domination in the dirt. But beneath the skin of this Volkswagen Polo lies a bigger heart, a stronger punch and a bite more fierce than ever before.

Team Peugeot Hansen will be back in action in this year’s FIA World Rallycross Championship which promises to deliver yet another fiercely fought season, with the calendar due to kick off in Barcelona, Spain, on April 1-2.

This weekend, during the FIA Off-road Commission gala, FIA observers announced their evaluations which showed that Neste World RX of Latvia, which took place in Rīga, was the highest rated event of the season of 2016 of FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy.